Bill Ackman Thinks Your Sons Should Finish Israel’s Fight
Bill Ackman joined Twitter in 2017.
From 2017-2023, he never mentioned Iran.
Then in 2024, he tweeted five times about its nuclear program.
Yesterday, he crossed a new line and revealed his true goals: openly calling for the U.S. to fight a regime change war in Iran.
Ackman won’t be fighting this war. Your sons will.
He cloaks his warmongering in faux humanitarianism, pretending to back the Iranian people’s fight to “take their country back.” But we’ve seen this script before—almost word for word. George W. Bush said the same about Afghanistan: “We are helping the Afghan people take back their country.” In 2003, it was Iraq. That war killed 200,000 civilians. Days before the invasion, Dick Cheney assured Americans, “We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.” Their press secretary, Ari Fleischer, parroted the same line: “The [Iraqi] people want to be free… people will rejoice.”
‘‘The [Iraqi] people want to be free. And given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
There is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly. This was the reason that the president felt so strongly that we needed to take military action to disarm Saddam Hussein since he would not do it himself.
There's no question we have said that Saddam Hussein possesses biological and chemical weapons, and all this will be made clear in the course of the operation for whatever duration it takes.’’
— Ari Fleischer, March 2003
More than two decades later, Ari Fleischer is still out here, still using the exact same talking points, only this time for Iran:
So is Eli Lake, who helped fabricate and launder pro-war propaganda about Saddam’s WMDs. Now writing for The Free Press he’s become one of the loudest voices calling for regime change in Tehran. Same playbook, new war.
Same with John Podhoretz, one of George H.W. Bush’s speechwriters. In 2006, he said his only regret was that the U.S. hadn’t killed enough civilians.
In 2024, John is now furious that Americans don’t want their sons dying in another Middle Eastern war. According to him, if you object, you're “a piece of shit.”
The people who brought us the Iraq war never faced accountability and in many cases only gained influence and prestige. We are paying the consequences for that failure of accountability now.
Even Newt Gingrich is back, tweeting that replacing the Iranian regime is “the only acceptable outcome” of the current conflict.
In 2001, Newt said the same thing—only it was about the Taliban.
Afghanistan is actually a better comparison than Iraq for this moment. Saddam Hussein was a secular, sectarian strongman with no real ties to Islamist extremism. Iran is far more unified, with fewer internal sectarian fault lines than Iraq. The Taliban, by contrast, mirrors Iran’s current theocratic regime. “Our goal is to create conditions in Afghanistan where the Taliban can no longer function as a government,” said Donald Rumsfeld shortly after the invasion began.
The most important thing about that regime change war is simple: America lost. The Taliban outlasted the occupation and returned to power, stronger than ever. Even if the war had truly been about liberating the Afghan people—which it wasn’t—it still failed on its own terms.
Ackman claimed yesterday that “Iran is not Afghanistan,” suggesting this war would be easy—just “a bomber or two for a few days.” But that’s exactly what they said last time. And like last time, they have no exit strategy, no understanding of the region, and no plan for what comes next.
A ‘‘bomber or two for a few days’’?
What do you mean you need a few dozen Marine battalions for a year or two?
A full-scale war lasting 20 years and costing trillions of dollars is a small price to pay to liberate the Iranian people!
“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks or five months. But it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
— Donald Rumsfeld, November 14, 2002
“It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
— Donald Rumsfeld, February 8, 2003
I think it will go relatively quickly … [in] weeks rather than months.”
— Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003
Ackman is lying. There is zero chance of bombing Iran into submission. That means boots on the ground. And once that happens, the war escalates—possibly dragging in Russia, China, or North Korea. If the U.S. gets involved, this spirals into another endless conflict. Maybe that’s the point.
He’s right that “Iran is not Afghanistan.” That’s exactly the problem. Afghanistan’s GDP is 23 times smaller than Iran’s. The Taliban still won. Now we’re supposed to believe we can defeat a far stronger nation with better allies? Spare me.
Ackman then admitted that Israel “does not have the equipment and armaments to complete the job.”
Translation: Israel starts the war, your sons finish it.
Ackman doesn’t even hide it. He says Israel lacks the firepower, and the U.S. should step in and finish what Israel started. That’s the plan.
Why start a war you openly admit you can’t finish alone—unless dragging America into it was the goal all along? For years, the idea that Israel might pull us into a war with Iran was dismissed as paranoid hysteria. Now, it’s official policy.
This isn’t about nuclear weapons. It’s not about democracy or liberation. It’s about destroying Israel’s enemies and installing regimes with Israeli geopolitical priorities—paid for with your tax dollars, and fought with your children’s lives. These wars never serve American interests -- only those of Washington’s most aggressive foreign lobbies.
These are the kinds of wars that destroy Republican presidencies. But the neocon script never changes: Israel will lead, America must “back them up.” And once again, they’re using the same lies to sell it.
But this time, Americans are seeing through it. No amount of propaganda or moral blackmail can hide what’s happening. Unelected neoconservative billionaires with close ties to Israeli policy are pressuring America into another Middle Eastern war. Then they smear anyone who points it out—accusing them of hatred, threatening their livelihoods, trying to silence the obvious. Then they openly demand war for Israel.
But the American people are not confused. They are not afraid. And they are done.
They have endured 40 years of lies and regime change wars in the Middle East.
Americans are tired of paying the price for foreign entanglements that don’t serve their security or prosperity.
No more sons for Israel. Not one.
Nice post, Chris. I agree with your core point: Zionists pushing white Americans to go die in another Middle East war on behalf of Israel.
A couple smaller quibbles, though:
1. The elites did not lose in Afghanistan because the goal was never to win there. The goal was to rape the American taxpayer in a forever war to benefit the transnational security state, as Julian Assange so eloquently put it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGU_7alJ80 . The upper elites got *exactly* what they wanted from the conflict.
2. Here, too, it is important not to conflate real objectives from fake objectives. The real objectives the elites want is Iran *destroyed*, not necessarily *conquered*, so that it cannot pose a threat to Israel again -- just like Iraq and Syria and Libya are all destroyed.
"Victory" in a conflict as "victory" is traditionally understood does not necessarily mean "victory" or "loss" for our elites with their twisted, hidden goals and objectives. (Vietnam was also a victory for them, as it drained massive amounts of blood and treasure from white middle America, even though Vietnam is normally considered a loss).
I hate all of these bastards. Gingrich, Ackman, the Cheneys--lying bastards. Look at Afghanistan now. Civilians killed in mass. We have disabled veterans from that shit show and still no one learns the lessons. What happened to the Vietnam protesters of the 60's, instead we have these wimps out there crying about keeping violent migrants in our country. Clean up the streets and send them to fight in Iran--that'll wake them up.